Use sand or semolina to create a desert in a bin. Talk to your child about hot desert climate and how animals lapart to the heat. Draw on semolina with your fingers. Make animal footprints and ask your child to guess the animal. Hide objects in semolina for the child to find them. Sensory bin ingredients: semolina, rocks, pebbles, foam cactus, foil lizard and scorpion, Play-Doh snake and Fisher-Price Little People camel.